Download e-book for iPad: House of Names by Colm Tóibín

By Colm Tóibín

ISBN-10: 0241257689

ISBN-13: 9780241257685

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'They minimize her hair sooner than they dragged her to where of sacrifice. Her mouth was once gagged to forestall her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. still, they heard her muffled screams.'

On the day of his daughter's marriage ceremony, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.

His daughter is ended in her dying, and Agamemnon leads his military into conflict, the place he's rewarded with wonderful victory.

Three years later, he returns domestic and his murderous motion has set the complete kin - mom, brother, sister - on a course of intimate violence, as they input a global of hushed instructions and soundless trips in the course of the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his spouse seeks his demise, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's online game of innocence whereas his son, Orestes, is distributed into bewildering, scary exile the place survival is way from convinced. Out in their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes needs to have the option to correct those wrongs of the previous no matter if it skill committing themselves to a negative, barbarous act.

House of Names is a narrative of severe longing and stunning betrayal. it's a paintings of significant good looks, and bold, from one in every of our most interesting dwelling writers.

Within the 12 months 1938, whilst Russia was once paralyzed through Stalin's terror, a small nation records in Moscow acquired an outdated manuscript known as Revelation of fireside that had in past days been stored mystery in a monastery for a very long time. whilst, in present time, a Dutch Slavonic student and a feminine archivist notice that the manuscript, notwithstanding below lock and key, has disappeared.

One other part of the road follows a tender woman’s seven-year development from neophyte instructor to gutsy union activist. It’s 1914, and the coal in southern West Virginia is a firmly entrenched hegemony, having succeeded in holding the union out. stressed and intimidated via strikebreakers, coal miners paintings in detrimental underground stipulations whereas their households endure monetary exploitation in cities owned through coal businesses.

Within the novel An premature Frost, or The Authoress, set in 1830s London, the yankee writer Jefferson Wheelwright seeks out the reclusive English novelist Margaret T. Haeley, writer of Dunkelraum's monster and widow of poet Stephen Haeley. the tale used to be encouraged by means of Washington Irving's rumored courtship of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein.